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By Norman L. Coad D. M. Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder only occurs when the person has the hereditary ability to dissociate. This predisposition must be combined with trauma for splitting and hiding to occur in the individual. Dissociation creates gaps in the memory. These gaps are really barriers of amnesia used to protect the conscious mind from the trauma that the person has experienced. There are many barriers of amnesia within the dissociating individual. The more traumatic the events experienced the more barriers there are. Dissociation is, therefore, a defense mechanism that is God-given in order to protect the sanity of these people. This protection is necessary. While it protects, there are some real and negative consequences to this forgetting on demand. Out of sight and out of mind does not mean all is well with the individual. Trauma is real things, happening to real people or parts of people at a a real point in time. They are not imaginary. The gaps in the memory that occur when the individual dissociates mean that the person with Multiple Personality Disorder is not aware of what the alters/personalities are doing in life. Almost all the alters carry out some function. They exist for a purpose. Many of these purposes are evil, destructive or shameful. Not being aware of what they are doing, or of their role and history equates to not being consciously in control of all your life. You are doing things that you just do not know about. Some alters were formed and dissociated because of verbal, emotional, physical, psychological, sexual, ritual and religious abuse. Trauma may include abandonment, rejection, age-inappropriate demands, emotional deprivation, or lack of structure in the family of origin. Inconsistency leads to insecurity, anxiety, poor adaptation to life. These are not the only types of abuses that occur. Much abuse is generational in nature. Patterns of abuse reoccur in families. This is evident in alcoholic, drug addicted, sexually addicted and co-dependent/dominant-submissive homes. These families often produce and parent children who grow up and repeat many of the problems of their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. A great amount of abuse is spiritual in nature and deeply hidden in the person’s subconscious. Homes where satanism is practiced parent children who exhibit sinful lifestyles similar to, but often worse than, the preceding generation. Satanist families are marked by frequent and profound torture, sexual perversion, sin and cruelty. (See “Court Evidences of Satan’s Destructive Work”;  SEEING AND BINDING UP THE BROKENHEARTED   by Norman L. Coad, Coadword Books, Burleson, Texas, 2018, pp. 46-50.) Those who are deeply ritualized are often controlled by demonic beings. When they act out under the influence of the evil ones, they can exhibit no remorse. If not stopped, they will continue to repeat their evil deeds. As they continue in their antisocial destructive behaviors, they will become increasingly evil. The Old Testament calls such individuals BELIAL–useless ones who lie, steal, corrupt and are violent. The New Testament in the King James Version calls them reprobates–people who love to do evil, encourage evil and criticize goodness and virtue and applaud those who do evil. Families marked by generational sin will often continue to carry out the iniquity of past generations. The sinful behaviors become entrenched in them. If not arrested, they will become increasing evil, wicked, corrupt and violent. God’s word says that He visits the iniquity of the fathers (and mothers) on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Him (God) by not obeying His commands (Genesis 20:5-6). As long as these continue their sinful behaviors, they bring the wages of sin upon themselves and their families. The remedy is in genuine confession of sin, repentance, turning away from their evil ways, and calling out to God for salvation. God said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Perhaps when you tell them the truth they will listen, and each will turn from his evil ways. Then I will relent and not bring on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done. If not, then I will let the evil fall on them (Jeremiah 26:2-6). Both God and Satan work with individuals and groups of people. Here is how Satan uses unconfessed sin of previous generations. He sends fallen angels, demons, to gather up unconfessed sins of previous generations. He forms these into “the schemes of the devil” and visits them on the children to the third and fourth generations to lie, rob, and destroy them (Ephesians 6:1-20). Those who engage to help these wounded and troubled people must engage in spiritual warfare against the evil ones. They must recognize and use their spiritual authority that the believers have in Christ Jesus. They are then able to use the name, the word, and the blood of the Lord to save, heal, and deliver the sin-sick, lost and dying (Matthew 16:13-20; 10:1; Luke 10:1-20). Category:  Norman's Place Tags:  Dissociation is reversible ,  Dissociative Identity Disorder ,  Heredity and trauma in dissociation by  Norman Coad

Positive self-esteem is the internalized understanding of one’s own self-worth in the light of the truth of the Word of God. Biblically Based Self Esteem Positive self-esteem is the internalized understanding of one’s own self-worth in the light of the truth of the Word of God. It is based on the creative work of God as revealed in the mind of God and His hands-on interactive relationship realized in physical reality from the moment of conception and our ongoing relationship to Him throughout life. Positive self-esteem is shown in our performance in life (but not based, nor dependent on, performance). It is not performance-based love and acceptance. It is a state of being, but one of who God created us to be, with all our unique traits of character and abilities. This is a biblically based Christian understanding of self-esteem. William James (1842-1910)—originated the term and the understanding of self-esteem.[1] Today, in psychology, the view that self-esteem as a collection of attitudes towards oneself remains current.[2] James’ “me-self” comprises the material self, social self and spiritual self. The material self consists of representations of the body. The social self-comprises all characteristics recognized by others. The spiritual self is how we present and evaluate ourselves.[3] Behaviorism minimized self-esteem as an unreliable aspect of introspection (looking into one’s own mind, feelings and reactions and making observations and analyses of oneself).[4] Behaviorists saw human beings as animals subject to, and altered by, negative or positive reinforcements.[5] The concept of core self-evaluations was first developed by Judge, Locke and Durham in 1997. The core evaluations include one’s fundamental appraisal of oneself, with locus of control (a sense of control), neuroticism (the interactions of the nervous system on self) and self-efficacy (the ability to bring about positive and appropriate outcomes for oneself).[6] (The interpretations are the author’s.) Abraham Maslow (1908-1970), in his hierarchy of needs, reflected the idea that self- esteem was a basic need and motivation.[7] He described two types of self-esteem:respect from others in the form of recognition, success and admiration, and self- respect in the form of self-love, self-confidence, skill and aptitude.[8] Without fulfillment of self-esteem needs, we become driven and are unable to grow and realize self-actualization (being and living out who we actually are).[9] Carl Rogers (1902-1987) taught that the origin of many personal problems was that people despise themselves and consider themselves worthless and incapable of being loved.[10] In order to enhance self-esteem, we must give people positive regard unconditionally.[11] In humanistic philosophy it is stated, “Every human being, without exception, for the mere fact of its self-existence, is worthy of unconditional respect of everybody else; he deserves to esteem himself and to be esteemed.” [12] Life experiences have great effect, positive and negative, on self-esteem.[13] Nurturing parents are critically important in nurturing self-esteem. Unconditional love from authoritative parents who are caring and supportive adults, who set clear standards for their children and allow them to voice their opinion in decision making, produce children who have high self-esteem and do well in school interactions. Childhood experiences that are an aid in self-esteem building and nurturing include: being listened to, being spoken to respectfully, receiving appropriate attention, having accomplishments recognized and mistakes acknowledge with unconditional acceptance of the child.[14] Life experiences that bring about or encourage low self-esteem include: being harshly criticized, being physically, sexually or emotionally abused (any type of abuse), being ignored, ridiculed, teased or being expected to be perfect all the time. During school years, aids to high self-esteem include: academic achievement and positive social experiences. Comparing oneself to others can alter healthy self-esteem; negative self-evaluations are destructive to self-esteem. Successful, positive relationships and interactions increase self-esteem whereas rejection by peers and loneliness brings about self-doubts and low self-esteem.[15] In later years, levels of mastery, low risk taking and better health, with adequate financing (author’s edit) are ways to predict higher self-esteem.Shame, at whatever age, contributes to low self-esteem. It makes no difference if it is false-shame (undeserved, or not real) or real and true guilt and shame. If these are not resolved, redemptively, low self-esteem will result. High Self-Esteem The characteristics of high self-esteem in individuals include: • They belief firmly in their values and principles and can defend them, or alter them, in the light of experience and insight. • They are able to make decisions and act decisively, trusting their own judgment, without guilt or being overly concerned about others’ opinions. • They do not expend excessive emotional energy worrying about the past or the future but live in the present. • They trust themselves to solve problems even in the face of apparent failures and difficulties. • They consider that they are as good and competent and of equal value to others (not better than, not less than), while being fully aware of the differences of social standing, talents and financial standings. • They understand that they themselves are precious, unique and worthy as are the people with which they interact. • They resist domination, manipulation and control, they resist being defensive and are able to collaborate with others in appropriate and necessary ways. • They are self-aware and accept their internal feelings and drives both positive and negative, while revealing these to others in appropriate situations and healthy ways. • They can enjoy a variety of activities. • They are sensitive to the feelings and needs of others, respect generally accepted social values and they do not claim any right or special privilege or desire to prosper at others’ expense. This is based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Insecure Self-Esteem Insecure People—people with defensive high self-esteem are fragile and vulnerable to criticism. They may internalize subconscious self-doubts and insecurity, causing negative reaction to any criticism. They have a need for constant positive feedback from others in order to maintain a fragile positive self-worth. These may also be boastful, arrogant and act superior to others and at times express aggressive hostile feelings, tearing others down in order to build themselves up.[16] The Characteristics of Low Self-Esteem are: • Heavy self-criticism and dissatisfaction. • Hypersensitivity to criticism with resentments against critics and feelings of being attacked. • They exhibit chronic indecision and exaggerated fear of mistakes. • They have excessive will to please and are unwilling to displease others. • They practice perfectionism which often leads to frustration when not achieved. • They show neurotic guilt, dwelling or exaggerating the magnitude of past mistakes. • They can express a floating hostility and general defensiveness and irritability without any apparent cause. • They live out of pessimism and a general negative outlook. • They have a general negative outlook without making differences between person, person-in-situation and situations. • They see temporary setbacks as permanently intolerable conditions. NOTE: The above characteristics are based on wiki/self-esteem. Biblically Based Self-Esteem The following is based on chapter six, “A Biblical Basis of Healthy Self-Esteem” and chapter seven “Self-Esteem Therapy,” of T he Divided Soul .[17] The characteristics of biblically based self-esteem are: • Positive self-esteem is the internalized understanding of one’s own self-worth in the light of the truth of the Word of God. • Positive self-esteem is based on the creative work of God as revealed in the mind of God and His hands-on interactive relationship when He created us in our mother’s womb. He desires an ongoing relationship to Him throughout life. • Positive self-esteem is shown in one’s performance in life, but not based nor dependent on performance. It is not performance-based love and acceptance. • Positive self-esteem is a state of being based on the fact that God created us to be, with all our unique traits of character and abilities. We are who the Word of God says we are, not what the accuser speaks, not what our negative, diminishing thoughts accuse us of being. We are not what our behaviors seem to indicate we are. The Word of God, which can never be broken and endures for both time and eternity, tells us who we are. There is no one who is an exception to the absolute truth. Psalm 139:13-18 and Ecclesiastes 5:14 make this plain to us. The setting of Psalm 139 is that David, the King, in conversation with God. (David lived during the bronze age, about 3,000 years ago.) God spoke revealing our value and identity. In paraphrase, David states, “You, God, created me. You knit me together within my mother’s womb with Your own hands. Therefore, just as Adam and Eve were created by God’s own hands, so was David, so are we.” In the nontechnical age of the time, David chooses to express the creative process of human gestation as being like a knitting. Francis Crick discovered DNA in the mid 1950s. DNA is a long three strand of yarn like threads with interconnecting hairs. It is over twenty feet long and rolls on and off a bobbin. This is very much like yarn. Cell division and multiplication is similar to knitting. David states, “I praise You God for me! I am fearfully, awesome and wonderfully, uniquely made.” The two most important commandments are to love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and strength and the second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself.David then says to God, “Your works are wonderful (speaking of himself), I know that full well.” At this I took exception. I knew David’s life story. He had shed much blood. He had a violent, rageful temper. He also had too many women in his life. With Bathsheba, Uriah the Hittite’s wife, he broke most of the Ten Commandments: You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t lie, don’t covet, all this while causing the death of an innocent child and cursing his family. His performance was despicable, and it bothered me. However, as I read more, God called him “David, my beloved” and said, “He is a man after my own heart.” I could not resolve David’s behaviors with the Scriptures. Later on, while reading Ecclesiastes 3:14 the Holy Spirit resolved the issue for me. The Scripture says, “I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it.” God made David. It is true our spirit and soul last forever. So, David is eternal. You cannot add anything to it, and nothing can be taken from it. So, when David said that he himself was wonderful and he knew it full well he was talking about God’s unchangeable work of which he was a part. I judged him on the basis of his performance (which was terrible). What does God say about performance? About everyone’s performance? • We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way. (Isaiah 53:6) • There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God, all have turned away. They have together become worthless. There is no one who does good, not even one. (Romans 3:10-12) Therefore, our value is not, cannot be, based on our performance, but on God’s creative work which cannot be altered or changed in any way. Then that means that whatever has been done to us cannot devalue us. No matter what we do, or how low we descend. Our value remains the same. If no one ever validates who we are, or affirms us in any way, we are precious even so. As God’s creation, created in Christ Jesus, our value is fixed. It never changes, it does not go up, nor does it go down. This is true both for time and eternity. Trying to perform to have self-worth or high self-esteem is a fruitless effort. Performance based love and acceptance is like walking on a treadmill. One uses up a lot of energy but goes nowhere. As a state of being, we are wonderful, awesome, unique, beloved of God, precious, chosen of God, created by God, a man or woman after God’s own heart. See figure . NOTES 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James . 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-esteem . 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. 8. Ibid. 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow . 10. Op sit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-esteem 11. Ibid. 12. Ibid. 13. Ibid. 14. Ibid. 15. Ibid. 16. Ibid. 17. N.L. Coad . The Divided Soul Coadword Books, Burleson, TX. 2016, p 61-75.For more information and help check out Dr. Coad’s book, The Divided Soul in the Book Store. Category: Norman's Place Tag: Multiple Personality Disorder

We See What We Want to See Human beings, including the professional communities, see what they want to see. The Christian counselor and the psychological community suffer from preconceived ideas of the past and inadequate research to the point that they almost function in isolation from one another. We see what we want to see. Even if something exists, we will often not be aware of it when we refuse to consider it as improbable or if it doesn’t match our idea of what should be. We become blind. To illustrate, I give a personal example: I had returned from Africa ill and was put in the hospital for testing. They found a growth in my bladder that looked like cancer. With all the thorough testing they found nothing else wrong. They informed me that they would have to remove my bladder. However, before the surgery they ordered a twenty-four-hour urine catch. The doctor who had been in the tropics during WWII knew I had lived in the tropics, often in primitive conditions. He ordered the staff to look for the unusual. With that instruction they found the Nile River Bladder Fluke. I still have my bladder! I asked, “Did they not do other urine studies?” He said, “Yes, but they did not see it because they were not looking for it.” Was it difficult to see?” No, not at all! When they began looking for it, it was as plain as the nose on your face!” The Supernatural and Spiritual Are Described in The Bible and Therefore Knowable In order to experience the supernatural one must allow that reality includes the spiritual. One must transform one’s world view to experience the reality that the spirit world is everywhere present. We only accept knowledge and wisdom about the spiritual if we think it true, real, helpful and necessary. The Supernatural World The supernatural world is divided into two distinct areas. There is that which is good, strong, kind, productive, nurturing, forgiving, loving, loves truth, is trustworthy, protects and perseveres to the end. This is of God and the Bible. The other part of the supernatural is ruled by Satan, demons, spirits of the dead and workers of iniquity. It is mean, filled with envy, malicious, arrogant, disrespectful, rude, easily angered, rageful, trusts few (if any), keeps record of every wrong, hates, seeks ways to retaliate, does harm and murders. This spiritual power base is quite often immoral, jealous, selfish and given to drunkenness, orgies, selfish ambitions, creates discord and creates factions which set us against each other. Modern Day Satanism and Paganism Most do not see the spiritual manifested in human behavior. They are blind and unaware of the consequences of their sinful behaviors. Two men make it clear: Carl Jung, who reinterpreted the evil spiritual as good, healthy and desirable [1] and Anton LaVey, who founded the Church of Satan, complete with satanic teachings and rituals. In LaVey’s Book of Satan he states “right and wrong have been inverted too long”[2] and challenged readers to “rebel against the laws of Satan and God.” [3] In both Jung and LaVey, Satan, demons, evil spirits, evil, wickedness, corruption and violence are assigned a positive role in the affairs of men. Immanuel Kant paved the way to Paganism. The reality of this is never considered in many of those who follow Pagan ways. Whatever their role, teachers, priests and priestesses, philosophers, writers, executives, news and media play rights, actors and politicians lend themselves to the spirit beings who use them for Satan’s purposes.It is written in the Bible, “our struggle is not against flesh and blood (human beings) but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the forces of evil in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 6:12, NIV). Paganism and Judeo-Christian religion represent the two main world views in world religions and civilizations. Pagan is not Christian. They are always at war with each other. At best, they tolerate each other like wheat and tares (Matthew 13:24–30). Their spiritual structures are absolutely opposed to each other. Both worlds have a spiritual structure that makes up their respective kingdoms. The Judeo-Christian kingdom is composed of: 1. The Lord—God the Father, God the Son, our savior and redeemer and God the Holy Spirit, the indwelling Spirit of the Lord that empowers us to live a holy and good life. He rules overall. 2. The angels of the Lord that are mighty and do His bidding. They obey His Word. 3. The heavenly hosts—the redeemed, spirit indwelt human beings who were saved by grace through faith before they died and went to Heaven. They do His will. 4. You and I who have been created by Him. We are workers of righteousness, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do (Psalm 15:1–5; Ephesians 2:10). The outline of the above is taken from Psalm 105:19–22. The pagan structure is a demonic structure over which the prince of the power of the air, Satan, rules, to which we all belonged at one time as we gratified the cravings of our sinful nature and followed his kingdom’s desires and thoughts and were objects of the wrath of God (Ephesians 2:1–3). Satan’s pagan structure is described in God’s Word. The Satanic world structure is made up of Satan, fallen angels (demons), spirits of the dead and workers of iniquity: 1. Satan, a fallen angel who was cast out of Heaven because he wanted to be God. He is the ruler of this dark world of sin (Isaiah 14:3–23; 14:12). 2. The fallen angels, called demons, who obey him and work against us, were cast out of Heaven by Michael and the angels of the Lord (Revelation 12:7–9). 3. There are the spirits of the dead, some of which are our relatives, familiar or ancestral spirits, who have never been saved by grace through4. faith. They do Satan’s will against us. These are the unredeemed of all the ages. 4. There are workers of iniquity, living human beings who do evil, wickedness, corruption and violence (Genesis 6:1–4; Psalm 5:5,6; 14:4; 28:3; 92:7; 94:4, 16; 141:9). “Workers of iniquity” is a King James Bible term in the Old Testament. These individuals are called Belial , (meaning “worthless”) men and women who work wickedness and destruction (Deuteronomy 13:13; Judges 20:1–13; I Kings 21:1–18 KJV). In the Greek they are called “reprobate”, depraved and rejected by God, because, over time, they had done wickedness to a point where they had corrupted themselves (by continually doing evil) until they themselves became controlled by the evil they did and they came to approve and applaud those who hate righteousness (Romans 1:18–32). Hidden Places Inside Us The most common place where demons hide and do evil is inside us. Jesus said, “It is not what goes into a man that defiles him but what comes out of his mouth that makes him unclean”. The things that come out of the heart make him unclean. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony and slander, these make him unclean (Matthew 15:10–20). Evidently, there was a commonly held teaching of which the Jewish believers were quite knowledgeable. Paul and the Jewish believers of the early church understood that our sinful nature and the lusts of the flesh fight against us. In Romans 7:14–25 Paul describes, …I am sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do…. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing…. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law, but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members… I’m wretched…who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God, [I am rescued (author’s addition)] through Jesus Christ our Lord. Our unseen sinful nature and our visible flesh are destructive to us. However, we struggle with them all the days of our lives. For those who go to Heaven we get a new nature and a new body. We will not have to struggle with these sins anymore (Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10; Romans 8:28–30; Colossians 2:28, 29; I Corinthians 15:50–54). During this life the Lord Jesus Christ gives us victory over our sinful nature and the flesh (Romans 7:24), the Holy Spirit helps in our weakness as He intercedes for us (Romans 8:26, 27). By His power we deny ourselves, take up our cross (an instrument of death) and crucify our flesh and our sinful nature every day, and in the power of the Holy Spirit, follow Him (Luke 9:23; Galatians 2:20, 21; Romans 6:8–10). Evil, Suffering and Pain By sin all men and women fall into sinful and corrupt ways (Isaiah 53:5, 6). It produces death in us. (Romans 7:13) After the Fall, when Adam and Eve were separated from God by their disobedient choices, the war between God and Satan came into the human race. There was war between Satan and his offspring and the woman and her offspring. The child born of the woman would kill Satan and sin (Genesis 3:15). In Genesis 6:1–18 Satan’s counterattack is recorded. He sent fallen angels (demons) to cohabit with human females in order to destroy our humanity (Genesis 6:1-8). The children born to them were called Nephilim. Genetically, they were 50% demon genes and 50% human genes. They showed hybrid vigor, were physically big and strong, heroes of old, men of renown. However, their character was corrupt beyond redemption. Every thought of their hearts was only evil all the time. Noah, a preacher of righteousness, preached repentance for a hundred and twenty years, but there was no repentance in them (I Peter 3:19, 20). Their unrepentant character was marked by evil, wickedness, corruption and violence (Genesis 6:5-19). In that day all died except those in the ark, Noah and his family. But the Nephilim were on earth in those days and also afterwards, that is, after The Flood. The character of the Nephilim survives to this day. Every news program attests to it. All news programs are about evil, wickedness, corruption and violence. Their evil character survives in us—in our flesh and in our sinful nature—Nephilim genes survive in us. Noah was completely human. His wife was Nephilim (50% demon genes, 50% human genes). Their offspring, their three sons, would be 75% human genes and 25% demon genes. Their wives 50/50. The genetic structure of humans was dominant enough toovercome the demon genes. The result is that Jesus, the God/man was 50% God by the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1:18) and 50% of the line of David. Noah redeemed the human race. The Lord Jesus redeemed all who believe unto God by grace (Ephesians 2:8-10). All these inherit eternal life (I Corinthians 15:2-11). The Dissociated Part of Each of Us The most hidden destructive part of us is the dissociated alter. They do not have the Holy Spirit. They are dominated by their sinful nature and the flesh. They are controlled and used by Satan to do his works. They are powerless before the demons, spirits of the dead and ancestral spirits. The evil ones force them by coercion to do evil, wickedness, corruption and violence. The first researcher into dissociation was Pierre Janet (1859–1947) who used hypnosis as a clinical tool to open up the hidden part of us.[4] His findings include: 1. Hysteria (dissociation) is a pathological form of dissociation that functions independently within the personality, which disturbs the individual’s everyday life.[5] 2. This condition he called Multiple Personality in which two or more dissociated states function with distinct differences of behavior, mood and intention and are unaware of each other.[6] 3. These personalities accepted bodiless beings to interact within them though they existed externally to the individual.[7] 4. There is a barrier of amnesia between the dissociated personalities and the conscious part of the individual.[8] 5. Hypnosis revealed the condition but was not likely to bring about long-term change.[9] 6. The personalities held parallel memories quite different from the conscious part of themselves.[10] 7. These individuals were persecuted by something and held shamefulsecrets of pathological behaviors.[11] 8. They must be believed until proven that it is untrue.[12] All of this has been verified true by the present author by many hundreds of dissociated clients. Sigmund Freud (1859–1939) affirmed these findings and added Jean-Martin Charcot’s finding of traumatic events as the cause of the dissociative response.At this time, only the therapies based on biblical teaching of deliverance and the biblical world view are able to reverse and heal the dissociation. The process is incremental. The personalities (here called “alters”) must be found, cleansed of the evil spirits, healed of the wounds and trauma memories, then led to Christ in a transforming, sanctifying salvation experience by grace through faith. These hidden places that have been described constitute major challenges for biblically based counselors. They are the best prepared spiritually to work with and care for these afflicted individuals. The psychological community has the deepest understanding of the workings of personality. They dominate treatment of all psychological problems. These two camps of caregivers need to receive each other so that the needs of the individuals are met. End Notes 1. Jung, C.G. Four Archetypes; Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Trickster. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. (Contained in Collected Works Vol. 9. part 1), 1970. 2. https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-S7Va9xWFV5XFybhK/The Satanic Bible_djvu.txt . 3. Alex Constantine. Satanism and Ritual Abuse: Case by Case Documentation, February 14. 4. N.L. Coad. Historical Roots of Dissociation , www.coadwordbooks.com/articles/ . 5. Ibid. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid. 12. Ibid. 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Satan cannot create anything. God is our creator, and we are His created beings. For You (God) created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I (David) praise You for I am fearfully (awesomely) and wonderfully made (Psalms 139:13-18). So, God created man in His own image, in the image of God (in God’s likeness) He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful (productive) and increase in number. (Genesis 1:27, 28a) Therefore, God, (God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit) is creative, fruitful and rules over all things as our creator God. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He (Yeshua Messiah) was with God (Father God and Holy Spirit of God) in the beginning. Through Him all things were made, without Him nothing was made that was made (1 John 1:1-3). The Word is God and also is the words that God speaks, by which He created the world and governs it. God created you and me, and because we are created by Him, we are precious, of great worth. We are so precious to God that God sent Jesus Christ to suffer, die, and be raised from the dead to redeem us from Satan’s lies and deception. For everything God created is good and it is to be received with thanksgiving and not rejected (1 Timothy 4:4-5). That includes receiving and loving ourselves and, like David, praising God for making us awesome and wonderful. Nothing can negatively change or diminish our value. Solomon wrote: “I know that everything God does will endure forever, nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere Him (Ecclesiastes 3:14). Since God made us of great value and whatever God creates cannot be added to increase our value or taken from us to devalue us in any way. That means that when I sin, my value does not go down, and when I do good things, my value does not go up. It is fixed. It does not change. All (God’s) words are true (Psalm 119:160). The Lord speaking to His disciples and to all believers says, “Sanctify, make them whole, that is holy, by the truth.”  Category:  Norman's Place by  Norman L. Coad D.M.

The missionary anthropologist, Paul Hiebert, defines worldview. Worldview is made up of the basic assumptions about reality. These assumptions lie behind the beliefs and behaviors of a culture. Assumptions are not arrived at by scientific method or research. These we believe to be true without proof, testing, or reason. We absorb these into our belief system from personal interactions with our environment and the prevailing views of those around us whom we use as reference groups to define reality. These assumptions become the bedrock of our understanding and identity. The cultural and environmental mix that we are born into and raised in shapes our worldview. Most of us have been conditioned to believe certain things are always true. For example, when we see and hear a person act and speak, we assume that that is who they are. If they are in a male body, then the person acting and speaking is male. If they are in a female body, then the person acting and speaking is female. However, for those who are multiple personalities, this may or may not be true. These preceding statements will make no sense at all to most of us because our worldview precludes this from being true. However, it is absolutely true. It has been well documented and is now an established fact within the psychiatric community. To be sure, this was not an easy truth for the professional to accept. In the early Nineties, this author sat in state conventions and heard highly credentialed people speak error. They refused to believe that there were many personalities in some people. Their denials centered around two issues: there is only one personality, not many personalities, resident in an individual, and there are no “bodiless beings” in certain troubled human beings. The latter issue has still not been accepted as truth. To believe these truths would require a change of worldview. Therefore, many fight and resist the reality being presented on many fronts. They fight the change. That is the usual response when one’s worldview is challenged.  For those of us who are biblically-based evangelicals, multiplicity presents a different problem–is it biblical? Does it contradict our biblical beliefs? The answer to these questions is a resounding NO! To believe that there are many personalities in an individual does not deny individual responsibility for our life, attitudes, emotions, thoughts and behaviors. Nor does it deny that each will give account for every idle word. Every individual part of us is responsible to our Creator God. What multiplicity does is force the believer to rethink the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in one’s life. That process we call sanctification. While regeneration happens in a moment of time, sanctification is a process that continues throughout our lifetime. The personalities or alters are completely human. They are made up of spirit, mind, emotions, and will. Like everyone else, they are responsible for what they think, feel, and do. Each individual alter must call on the name of the Lord to be saved. If not, they will die and go to hell. Therefore, it is necessary for each individual personality to believe the gospel and be saved. Salvation for the whole and salvation for the alter, a part of the whole, is the identical process. Jesus died on the cross for our sins, all of them. As the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, our sin debt is completely paid in full. However, the Messiah’s work on the cross must be individually applied by grace through faith. My salvation does not cover my children and grandchildren. Each one must call upon the name of the Lord himself. What is true of my children and grandchildren is true of each individual alter. Therefore, the process of salvation is the same for all: to the Jew first and also the non-Jew, to the person who does not split and to those individual personalities of the person who suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder. Category:  Norman's Place by  Norman L. Coad D.M.

The Bible lays a basis for us to understand and care for Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. The language and description of dissociation is embedded in the use and meaning of the words. In the Old Testament, the words  spirit  and  heart  are used. In the New Testament the word used is  soul. The Heart and Spirit The words  heart  and  spirit  are used as collective nouns. The word  heart  is used to describe the seat of the mind, the emotions and the will. The word  spirit  was applied to the spirit, mind, heart, and the immortal soul. The psalmist calls out to God asking, “Test me, O Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind.” (Psalms 26:2 NIV) Jeremiah speaking to the nation of Israel says that God will put the covenant of their relationship into the individual heart (Jeremiah 31:33 NIV). Job complains, “I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.” (Job 7:11 NIV) The  Heart  Can Be Corrupted The human spirit, heart, or soul can be corrupted. The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time (Genesis 6:5 NIV). Later, God informs us after the flood. He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.” (Genesis 8:21 NIV) Jeremiah lamented about man, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9 NIV) In the New Testament, Jesus said, “Out of the heart comes evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. These are what makes a man unclean.” (Matthew 15:19a NIV) James and the Divided Soul James uses a compound word to describe a person whose personality is in separate parts. The term used is  double-minded.   He writes about the person who has doubts and has difficulty believing-faith. Such a one is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind…He is a double-minded man unstable in all he does. (James 1:6-8 NIV) This compound word quite literally means a divided soul and spirit. This is the only Greek word in the New Testament that describes a soul that is split, a spirit that is in parts, unstable, of contradictory attitudes and thought processes that lead to conflicting and dramatically different behaviors. That is so typical of Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. In James 4:8 we read, “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” The double-minded has used his/her hands to do evil and wickedness. They have grossly sinned. Their hearts are not pure but corrupted. They are double-minded–divided in soul and mind, emotions, will and behaviors. They serve two masters–God and Satan. The parts of them fall into one of two camps. The one falls into the camp of God. These are the redeemed alters. The other falls into the camp of Satan. They are unsaved. The one chooses Jesus as Lord and Master. The other chooses Satan as master and their lord.  This leads to confusion of behaviors and relationships. The differences of masters within the same person leads to mixed signals. I love you; I hate you. Come near; go away. They are raging and dangerous one minute and kind, sweet, approachable the next. One minute they are cursing and using vile speech; the next minute they are speaking caring, good and kind words that build self and others up. The individual thinks and wonders, “I’m a mess! Who am I?” Those who relate to them are kept off balance and feel insecure with their conflicted souls. The hope that exists is this: Jesus saves and He can sanctify each individual part; but, remember that redemption only takes a moment, while sanctification is an on-going Holy Spirit process. The Divided/Double Heart (Psalms 12:1-2) “Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful one has vanished from among the children of men. Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.” To have a double heart means that the inner person, the self, the seat of thought is split into parts. These parts are often motivated by evil and the desire to be corrupt and destructive. Category:  Norman's Place by  Norman Coad

In the previous blog, we discussed the work of Pierre Janet. He was the pioneer in the development of hypnotherapy and the first to document Multiple Personality Disorder. Since his death, he has been largely ignored. Recently, with the increased interest in multiple personalities, his work is beginning to be recognized by some. For most of the history of modern-day psychology, he and his work have been conspicuously absent in the writings of leaders in the field. Sigmund Freud (1859-1939) was a contemporary of Pierre Janet and was, at first, supportive of Janet’s work. Judith Herman quotes Freud from his work,  The Origins of Psychoanalysis, Letters to Wilhelm Fliers, Drafts and Notes, 1887-1902.  Freud says: “By the way, what have you got to say to the suggestion that the whole of my brand-new theory of the primary origins of hysteria is already familiar and have been published a hundred times over though several centuries ago? Do you remember my always saying that the medieval theory of passion (demon possession [writer’s interpretation]), that is held by ecclesiastical courts, was identical with our theory of a foreign body and the splitting of consciousness? But why did the devil who took possession of the poor victims invariably commit misconduct with them, and in such horrible ways? Why were the confessions, extracted under torture, so very like what my patients tell me during psychological treatment?” Freud believed in Janet’s writings and research. However, he abandoned his support of Janet under pressure exerted by his peers and elders in the psychological community. It was made clear to him that the popularity and acceptance of his work would suffer if he continued to embrace the validity and reality of the spiritual as a factor in psychological treatment. The bias of the psychological community against spiritualism has and continues to be profound. I am defining spiritualism as: a voluntary acceptance of an individual of a bodiless being(s) which is external to the individual. This bodiless being is not part of the individual’s personality but a separate being functioning in and through a person. Their existence within is always dysfunctional and destructive to the person himself and to those around them. The subjectivity required to incorporate the spiritual world as a factor in psychological problems is extremely disturbing to the present day psychological and medical communities. These communities have incorporated the scientific method as the basis for establishing truth. This requires great objectivity. This works well in the physical, material world and has been a great blessing to us all. However, when one accepts bodiless beings as real and present in human psychological behavior, the scientific method is inadequate. Why? The scientific method only works well in the material world. It does not work in the spiritual world. That requires  revealed truth.   Subjective interpretation based on revealed truth does not fit into the scientific method. I understand the dilemma, but denial of the spiritual world is self-defeating and is not consistent with manifest reality. The material and spiritual world both exist and are an active part of our human condition. To deny the existence of the spirit world negates the experience and belief of the vast majority of humanity. However, that is exactly the past and present-day stance of the majority of the psychological and scientific communities. The psychological community has gotten by with this to this point in time. That, however, has not worked at all with Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), also called Dissociative Personality Disorder (DID). For over thirty years, the research groups using the scientific method have worked to develop treatment modalities for MPD. To date they have not succeeded. They still state in the official literature that there is no cure or effective therapy for MPD. Conversely, those who are incorporating spiritual therapies in their treatment report that help and even cure of this problem are possible and are taking place. I believe that it’s time, for the sake of many hurting people, that this sad state of affairs be brought to an end. I am in the group that believes that spiritual problems require spiritual answers, and material problems require material answers. It is not a question of either/or but both/and. May it soon be so!  Pierre Janet (1859-1947) Pierre Janet was the first researcher into the problems of dissociative people. He introduced this research in the community of modern-day psychology. He was recognized as one of the pioneers in the use of hypnosis as a clinical tool. The techniques that he developed are still broadly used today. He found that hypnosis was an accurate way to open up the hidden issues and the hidden world of gravely wounded and dysfunctional people. The use of hypnosis as an intervention made it possible for others to use these techniques and methods and to substantiate many of the claims that he made in his writings. Janet’s findings about hypnosis remain true to this day. He found that hypnosis was a great tool to open up that which is hidden deep in the personality. The major limitation of hypnosis was and is that its use as a therapy of change is limited. The therapist can make suggestions to the person who is in a deep hypnotic state, and these suggestions will be acted upon after the individual comes out of hypnosis. However, the deepest and most troubling issues of the individual can only be altered for a few days to a few weeks. No long-lasting change takes place in hypno-therapy. A few addictions do respond to hypnosis such as nicotine addiction. Pierre Janet is recognized for his work in hypnosis. However, his findings through its use have largely condemned him into oblivion within the psychiatric community. He found that there were co-existing personalities, some of which the person was consciously aware and others that they were not aware of. These additional personalities had parallel memories in complete ignorance of one another. They exist; they function. They are often opposed to each other and to the conscious part of themselves. The conscious personalities are often engaged in socially acceptable behaviors and attempts to live within social standards that are lawful. Whereas the hidden personalities are often antisocial and destructive to self and others and can be morally and behaviorally lawless, often in the extreme. Janet named the condition of one person with many personalities Multiple Personality Disorder. This name emphasizes the fact that an individual, while existing in one body, has many personalities within.  He defined several terms that described what he was finding through hypno-therapy. Some of these are: hysteria, hypnosis, multiple personality, and spiritualism.  Hysteria   is a pathological (dysfunctional and destructive) form of dissociation that functions independently within the personality which disturbs the individual’s everyday life.  Hypnosis  is induced dissociation or amnesia whereby they are unaware of what is taking place while in the induced hypnotic state.   Multiple Personality  is a condition in which two or more dissociated states function with distinct differences of behavior, mood, and intention and are unaware of each other.   Spiritualism  was a voluntary acceptance of a supposed bodiless being (Janet’s words) which was external to the individual, that is, not part of the individual’s personality, but a separate entity functioning within the multiple’s personalities. This being that he identifies as a spirit being is real and active within and through the individual’s life. His clients described the activities of this being to him. The fact that he reported the spirit beings as the clients perceived them served notice to the psychiatric community that the malevolent spirit beings were active in psychiatric and social dysfunctions.  This, I believe, is the reason the psychiatric community ignored Janet’s work for about eighty years. His work with multiple personalities was not reported and, for years, was not mentioned in clinical training. By design, he was treated as if his great body of work did not exist. Pierre Janet’s attitude in therapy was client centered. He was aware of but did not let the psychiatric community’s biased and determined opposition to anything spiritual interfere with the client’s therapy. Speaking to one of Kroepelen’s students, he declared, “I believe these people (the psychotics) until it is proven to me that what they say is untrue…. You see, these people are persecuted by something, and you must investigate to get to the root.” These client revelations of pathological behaviors he described not in explicit terms but in words such as “obsessions”, “fantasies” and the like. He alluded to the client’s personal trauma but never stated it. Janet’s work was spot on correct. It should be noted that he found a barrier of amnesia between the conscious part of the multiple and the sub-conscious. That, too, is true. Those of us who do therapy with the individuals who suffer from multiple personality disorder owe a great debt to this honest and clinically correct worker with those who suffer from MPD. Category:  Norman's Place Tag:  Multiple Personality Disorder by  Norman L. Coad D.M.

The perfect balance for a counselor who works with those who suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is a solid education in psychology and counseling with accountability to the state health organization combined with spiritual credentialing. Professional Credentialing Professional credentialing is well-known and accepted in our western culture. Counselors are required to have a master’s degree in counseling or a related field from an accredited educational institution. A PhD or MD degree is considered helpful. Education in the field and supervised direct client/patient contact is also required. When the educational and professional training is completed, the state administers an examination covering the required material. The state sets the grade level to establish the point of pass or fail. If the individual passes, the state board issues a recognized license. The emphasis is on the academic and practical application of the knowledge. At this time, the principles of behaviorism are emphasized. Spiritual Credentialing Pierre Janet and others have established the fact that “bodiless beings” dwell in and greatly influence the individual who suffers from antisocial behaviors and Multiple Personality Disorder. Bodiless demonic beings are spiritual beings who may or may not manifest in bodily form. They are spirit beings who spend a great amount of their time and energy influencing the spiritual part of human beings in a negative way. They often dwell in them in order to direct their behavior. To confront and shut down their demonic work, the counselor must be able to engage them at the spiritual level. Behavioral techniques of counseling and intellectual knowledge in the psychiatric field are not enough. The Purpose of Counseling The purpose of counseling is to bring about positive change. Understanding what healthy psychological functioning is necessary. Behavioral norms of acceptable personal and social behavior inform the counselor as to what is normal and healthy. Healthy functional behavior has been informed and empowered by the Judeo-Christian beliefs arising from the Reformation. In the Reformation, reading the Bible in a person’s native language was encouraged. This led to broad-based literacy. The Bible was recognized as God’s written word to His created people. As such, it was incumbent on the reader to be obedient to what was written That obedience has led to the greatest growth in knowledge, the humane treatment of one another in social interactions, and the positive transformation of individuals and social institutions that the world has ever known. The indwelling bodiless beings cause a multitude of individual and social problems. If these unclean spirits are ignored or treated as psychosis or hallucinations, the client/patient will not be helped, and change for the better will not occur. The Kingdom of Heaven/God Jesus as Christ dwelling in us brings about the reign of God on earth in the lives of men and women (Matthew 3:2). The Lord overcomes the forces of evil and can remove all the consequences of sin. Believers will not die and go to hell but will go to heaven. We are urged to believe the Gospel: Christ died for our sins; He was buried and was raised from the dead to show His victory over death and hell (I Corinthians 15:1-8). His followers, the Apostles, the Seventy-two others, and all believers were commissioned and sent out with authority as believers. They were told to preach salvation through repentance and faith, to heal the sick, and to cast out demons. This commission was given to all believers (Matthew 28:16-20). Jesus promised to empower us to do the work. I will send the Holy Spirit from the Father so that you are clothed with power from heaven (Luke 24:45-49). The reality that “bodiless beings” indwell, trouble, abuse, and traumatize has been attested to for thousands of years. The vast majority of the world’s population believes this to be true. The counselors who engage to work with those who dissociate must be deeply convinced of this truth. Content of Spiritual Credentialing A relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ : To the best understanding of this writer, only those with a spiritual relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua the Messiah, are able to shut down and cast out “bodiless beings” (demons, unclean spirits). The indwelling Holy Spirit:  He is the counselor, The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth. He will teach us and remind us of the truth (John 14:15-17; 25-27). Those who have faith are given spiritual power:  Jesus, the Lord, said, “Anyone who has faith in Me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these because I am going to the Father. I will do whatever you ask in My name to glorify the Father (John 14:12-14). Those in whom the power of God dwells will be marked  by signs: Jesus called His disciples to Him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and heal every disease and sickness (Matthew 10:1; Mark 16:15-18). The man or woman of faith will use God’s spiritual resources to do His work among us:  pray in the Lord’s name. Cast out demons, spirits of the dead, some of which are ancestral spirits. Use His name, His word and His shed blood to do the work of the Lord. Ask Holy Spirit to give and direct the use of wisdom and knowledge; the ability to heal, prophecy, distinguish between spirits; the power to work miracles, etc. (1 Corinthians 12:1-11) Always test the spirits to see if they are from God. (1 John 4:1-6) Category:  Norman's Place by  Norman L. Coad D.M.

Those who dissociate have several factors in common that do not exist in the population as a whole. This constitutes a large group of people. No one really knows how many people dissociate; however, we know some of the factors that people have in common who suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder, also called Multiple Personality Disorder. Inherent Personal Factors All people who dissociate have the hereditary ability to dissociate. This characteristic therefore runs in families. It is not uncommon to find whole families who dissociate to the point of dysfunction. To dissociate means that these individuals are able to separate parts of their personality from the whole. Usually, these parts are traumatized in some manner. The trauma memories are assigned to the separated part and are hidden from the dissociating person himself. It’s out of sight and out of mind. That part continues to exist and function, but in the sphere of the sub-conscious. However, that dissociated part can be triggered into the person’s consciousness by similar events and situations that split off the parts in the first place. The split off parts are called by two names: alters or personalities. These are used interchangeably. When these alters are triggered up, i.e. into the person’s consciousness, they manifest just as they are. Most of the time, the alters manifest in discreet, subtle ways and are not noticeable to most people. However, inside the body, the change is quite marked. There are reasons for this. Why Inner Changes Are So Marked When a personality is formed for him or her, the moment is frozen in history. The alter that is formed stays that same age from then on. If the trauma occurred as a child, the alter will think, act, and feel like a child. The chronological age of the person may be true to their birthdate, but the child will not get older, mature and change. Everything is fixed in place. If the child in an adult body is triggered up, whoever is interacting with that person will be dealing with a child. In the person who dissociates, there will be both male and female personalities. The most plausible understanding of this is that the alters are formed from the X or Y chromosomes. We all have male and female chromosomes in us. Without this fact, we could not procreate male and female offspring. The man and woman are enough like each other to relate physically, and enough difference exists so that the male produces sperms. The female ovulates so that the two may conceive a child of either gender. In the vast majority of humanity, maleness and femaleness follows the physiological aspects of the person. It is statistically true that about 50% of the population is male and the other 50% is female. The exceptions to this do not make the rule.  Programming of Personalities is Ongoing Alters are often abused and brainwashed to the point of gross antisocial behavior. This brainwashing results in programmed behavior that is always dysfunctional and disruptive to the person’s life and psyche. The programming follows closely to the traumas of verbal, emotional, psychological, sexual, physical, satanic and religious abuse. There are whole groups of people who are motivated to abuse others, split off alters and program them to antisocial behavior These people seek out children to abuse through social institutions that are used as a covering for their evil behaviors. All of this has been well documented in many court cases. At a Deeper and More Hidden Level There is also abuse going on at a very deep and hidden level. This is where treatment modalities cross over into the spiritual. All dissociated people seem to be intelligent and very spiritually attuned. Many are also very artistic. Many of the dissociated make known to their counselor the existence of spiritual bodiless beings that hurt and force them to do evil and wicked things. These bodiless beings are called variously demons, Satan, spirits of the dead, and alien human spirits. These work in the spiritual, non-material levels of reality. It is for this reason that this counselor uses the Bible as the basis of truth and reality. Biblical reality based on the Scripture of the Bible allows the counselor to work at the spiritual level. The counselor does not designate the atypical descriptions of the person’s life as hallucinations, but real and true descriptions of reality. As Pierre Janet, the first to document Multiple Personality Disorder, has said, “These people are to be believed until what they say has been disproved.” Category:  Norman's Place by  Norman L. Coad D.M.

Pierre Janet Pierre Janet (1859–1947) pioneered the use of hypnosis as a clinical tool to study dissociation.[1] His understanding of Dissociation is that there is simultaneous development of additional personalities with parallel memories, in complete ignorance of one another.[2] Janet expanded the meaning of somnambulism (sleepwalking) to include any kind of activity pursued while in a dissociated condition.[3] In this expanded meaning he included hysteria, hypnosis, multiple personality and spiritualism. [4] Hysteria is a pathological form of dissociation that functions independently within the personality which disturbs the individual’s everyday life.[5] Hypnosis was induced dissociation.[6] Multiple personality was a condition in which two or more dissociated states function with distinct differences of behavior, mood and intention and are unaware of each other. [7] Spiritualism was a voluntary acceptance of a supposed bodiless being which was external to the individual.[8] Hypnosis was effective in revealing the above. However, its restorative effects were short term in nature. The characteristic aftereffects include a period of fatigue for as long as two days. There are several days in which the patient enjoys apparent health and well-being and is free of spontaneous hysterical attacks for several days or weeks. No ongoing change was brought about.[9] Janet alluded to shameful secrets lurking in the patients’ pathology with such words as “obsession,” “fantasies” and the like.[10] He alluded to patient trauma but never stated it. He declared to one of Kroepelen’s students, “I believe these people (the psychotics) until it is proven to me that what they say is untrue…you see these people are persecuted by something and you must investigate to get to the root.” [11] Sigmund Freud Freud (1859–1939) was impressed by Jean-Martin Charcot’s work on traumatic hysteria. Charcot (1825-1893) believed that his clients were suffering from a form of hysteria which had been induced by their emotional response to traumatic accidents in their past.[12] Freud’s medical colleague, Josef Breuer, developed a treatment while treating Anna O. “The way to cure a particular symptom of hysteria was to recreate the memory of the incident which had originally led to it and bring about emotional catharsis by inducing the patient to express any feeling associated with it.”[13] The disappearance of one of Anna O’s symptoms led to Breuer’s therapeutic technique procedure.[14] She became, for Freud, his first psychoanalytic patient.[15] Freud married Breuer’s talking cure to Charcot’s understanding of traumatic hysteria, i.e., trauma is the basis of the hysteria.[16] The majority of his eighteen clients from which he drew his conclusions were all sexually abused in childhood. He held this position until 1897 when peer pressure and social pressure caused him to say that the trauma events could be imagined events with equal negative effects.[17] Freud describes bases of sexual abuse: assaults by adults (incest, rape or forced sexual activities) and long term sexually inappropriate relationships between adult and child with genuine feelings of love.[18] Judith Herman, in her book, quotes Freud: “By the way, what have you got to say to the suggestion that the whole of my brand-new theory of the primary origins of hysteria are already familiar and have been published a hundred times over though several centuries ago? Do you remember me always saying that the medieval theory of possession (demon possession [writer’s interpretation]), that held by ecclesiastical courts, was identical with our theory of a foreign body and a splitting of consciousness? But why did the devil who took possession of the poor victims invariably commit misconduct with them, and in such horrible ways? Why were the confessions, extracted under torture, so very like what my patients tell me during psychological treatment?” [19] C.G. Jung Carl Jung (1875–1961) rejected the rationalistic legalism of his pastor father which forced all religious understandings to fit the intellectual grid of his mind in which he all but rejected the supernatural in Christianity. His reaction against his father’s religious rationalism moved Jung to seek out and accept all things supernatural. He treated all the supernatural as if they were of equal value. By not making any distinction between good and evil, functional or dysfunctional, he opened himself up to a vast array of spirit guided spiritual experiences. His psychological understandings come from this base. Jung engaged in occult visions and conversations. He engaged “Elijah” in conversation who is with “Salome”. “Elijah” changes into another figure, “Philemon”. He teaches Jung about the nature of human consciousness. “Philemon” changes into the Egyptian nation spirit Ka.[20] He believed that “Philemon”, the spirit guide, was real, a source of information outside himself. He was dead but talking to Jung.[21] He felt this was legitimate information. It was a type of library outside his physical reality containing everything ever known. The spirit guides interacted between that dimension and ours.[22] This opened the way for his theory of the collective unconsciousness. The collective unconsciousness is made up of archetypes with their knowledge and wisdom that have existed since the remotest times.[23] The archetypes and shadows, of which there are many, are all manifestations of evil spirits.[24] Jung draws heavily from the occult and occult experiences, often researching back in history, practices and philosophies that had been evaluated by the church counsels and rejected. In 1916 Jung stated that the start of the work was identical to a possession.[25] “Then it was as if my house began to be haunted. My eldest saw a white figure passing through the room. The second daughter, independent of her sister, related that twice in the night the blanket had been snatched away. That same night my nine-year-old son had an anxiety dream. Around five o’clock the front doorbell began ringing. I immediately looked to see if someone was there but saw no one. The two maids heard it and saw it (the doorbell) moving.” Jung felt he had to act. He shouted, “For God’s sake, what in the world is this?” They cried out in chorus, “We have come back from Jerusalem where we found not what we sought.” Over the next three evenings the book was written, and as soon as he began to write. “The whole ghastly assemblage evaporated. The room quieted down and the atmosphere cleared. The haunting was over.” [26] Analysts have said it was both the automatic writing, and the contents of that writing, that shaped his writings.[27] Jung said, “All my work, all my creative activity has come from these fantasies and dreams which began in 1912. Almost 50 years ago. Everything that I accomplished later in life was already contained in them, though at first only in the form of emotions and images.’[28] “Philemon” and “Basilides” are but two of the spirit guides that were in contact with Jung.[29] The union of opposites, the focus of alchemists, was, for Jung, the focus of Gnostics, whom he felt had been incorrectly labeled as radical dualists, i.e., believing the battle between good and evil without apparent union between the two.[30] For Jung, dualism and monism were not mutually contradictory and exclusive, but complimentary aspects of reality. As such, there was no good or wrong, nor order or chaos, just opposites which create gray, and demanded of mankind to be united, transformed.[31] Jung became the philosopher of the New Age movement. The New Age is a graying of cultural attitudes arising out of 20th Century Western culture that are adaptations from ancient and modern civilizations that emphasize reincarnation, holism, pantheism and the occult, with an emphasis on spiritualism. These teachings are not based on Judeo-Christian teachings, nor do they emphasize right living, nor health. There is no referral to objective truth or absolutes. Jung practiced indiscriminant supernaturalism. He made no distinction between good and evil—God, Who is good, and Satan, who is evil. He urged us to embrace  both as who we are.  If everything we do is okay, then ultimately, nothing has any value. Our life, then, is of no value, and the life we live is meaningless. B.F. Skinner B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) Whether or not the confusion and lack of clarity produced by Carl Jung’s writings was the motivation for behaviorism I do not know. However, behaviorism did serve to reestablish objectivity to psychological studies. In his first book he defined behaviorism as, “A science of behavior using scientific methods and practices.”[32] Behavior is an organism engaged in, and acting on, or having commerce with, the outside world in which the effects of behavior are measured and observed facts of reality.[33] He reduced all behavior to stimulus, response and reflex. Stimulus —the force affecting the organism. Response —the reciprocal shown relationship between stimulation and response. Reflex —the observable fact arising out of stimulus and response.[34] Isolating reflex allows demonstration of a predictable uniformity of behavior.[35] Behaviorism in psychology is a theory that all investigation of behavior must be objective or observed. Introspection is considered to be invalid. Introspection (or subjectivity) in psychology is looking within one’s own self, evaluating feelings, reactions, attitudes, thoughts and behaviors to establish what is true, genuine and real. (Author’s definition.) The problem of introspection that is separated from objective reality is that it is incapable of being checked externally or verified by other persons. Skinner’s work, along with others, established a body of objective, observed fact that led to advances in many fields of research and greatly advanced behavioral sciences. As helpful as behaviorism is, it turned attention away from self-observation and self-knowledge.[36] To fill in this gap Skinner relented. He postulated what he called “radical behaviorism.” He allowed that the private world within the skin may be observed (no longer dismissing introspection and self-report), but he questioned the nature of the objects observed and the reliability of the observations.[37] He stated that introspectively observed occurrences are the products of a person’s genetic and environmental histories.[38] The spiritual was given no role. The spiritual aspects of human behavior are lost in behaviorism. This is a problem for behaviorists when working with Dissociative Identity Disorder. This may be the reason that behavioral research has not been able to develop viable therapies in the last thirty years. Norman L. Coad Norman L. Coad (1940–) From the beginning of psychological Dissociative Identity Disorder studies it was revealed that spirit beings have interacted with human beings, split the personality into multiple personalities, and disordered the affected person’s everyday life. In my work on Dissociative Identity Disorder  the Divided Soul,  the spiritual and the behavioral aspects of dissociated persons are melded together to develop a solid therapy for diagnosis and treatment.[39] With dissociative clients, behavior based psychological counseling is insufficient. These people live the majority of their lives in the spiritual and behavioral psychology has no means of dealing with the spiritual. Behaviorism is based on what is observed by one or another’s doing.[40] It’s a description of behavior based on stimulus, response and reflex.[41] Spiritual understandings are measured by the written Word of God, the Bible, in order to maintain objective truth and reality. The written Word is to be considered objective truth to be obeyed. By measuring our interpretations of reality against the written Word, indiscriminate subjective spirituality is avoided. We have a standard by which we may test our observations. In that comparison it is quickly observed that there is a good spiritual world and an evil spiritual world. Common sense and moral integrity force us to reject the evil and accept the good; choose God instead of Satan; confront demons and spirits of the dead and workers of iniquity. At the same time, we embrace the help and work of angels of the Lord, the hosts of Heaven, the redeemed of all the ages and the indwelling Holy Spirit of the Lord. (Note: This has been dealt with fairly thoroughly in  The Divided Soul .) Biblical supernaturalism is based on the redeeming work of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah. The power of His death and resurrection is appropriated by the believer by grace through faith. All believers are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and as such they have the right and responsibility to use the Lord’s resurrection power, according to the will and Word of God, under the authority of the Holy Spirit. When applied to the needs of dissociated people, healing takes place and positively changes the effects of abuse and multiple personalities. These can be reversed over time. By this supernatural means Dissociated Identity Disorder is curable. It is not a trauma and wounding that one must live with all through life. This therapy is a  process,  not an instantaneous cure. The biblical world view is compatible with the created world we live in. A believer is to take authority over it, that is, human beings are to direct, control and use the resources of this world so that the part of life they have influence over is productive, creative, nurturing and affects others positively. This would also include the knowledge and wisdom of psychology that has been developed over time. The biblical world view places humankind so that we must deal with the material and behavioral world  and  the spiritual world. “The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being” (Genesis 2:1). “So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). By creation, humankind are both physical and spiritual. We live in two worlds simultaneously. Dissociative Identity Disorder cannot be treated successfully without incorporating the realities of both the material man and the spiritual man into therapies. Skinner, the father of behaviorism, states that what is felt, or introspectively observed, is not a cause of behavior.[42] There is no room to consider multiple personalities motivated by bodiless beings (referring to Pierre Janet). Neither is a behavioral process available to deal with (demon) possession nor the devil committing misconduct with his poor victims (referring to S. Freud). The multiple personalities are hidden below, and between, layer after layer of amnesia. They have been formed into a pyramid structure ruled over by Satan and directed by demons, spirits of the dead and workers of iniquity ( The Divided Soul,  Glossary). This structure is made up of levels, areas, sections, divisions and systems. The alters are coerced into obedience to the demons and all evil by torture, pain and fear. They live in a world where survival is the goal. There is no evil that the alters will not do in order to avoid torture. It’s a life of terror and deep shame. They have to be shown a way out of the demonically controlled life they live. They are told, and it is true, if they try to get out, they will be killed. However, with the power of the Lord, His name, His Word and His blood, no one’s life is lost. When they commit to Him as their new master, the healing and change necessary begins to take place. Through biblically based Christian therapy, positive change is possible. The therapist works to apply the biblical world view, prays in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, uses the Scriptures of the Bible and applies the principles based on God’s Word. The Spirit of Christ joins the therapist by empowering His wisdom in the work so that the healing that follows is quite beyond what one can do in one’s own strength and abilities alone. We partner with the Lord. Overview I. Pierre Janet —of the dissociated individual determined: A.  Dissociation  is a simultaneous development of additional personalities with parallel memories in complete ignorance of one another.B.  Hysteria  is a pathological form of dissociation that functions independently within the personality and which disturbs the individual’s everyday life.C.  Multiple Personality  is a condition in which two or more dissociated states function with distinct differences of behavior mood and intention and are unaware of each other.D.  Spiritualism  functioning in the individual is voluntarily acceptance in which a bodiless change agent functions in, but is not native to, the individual.E.  Hypnosis  is helpful to expose the realities of dissociation (but positive results are short term in nature). II. Sigmund Freud A. Drawing from Jean-Martin Charcot’s work states, “Hysteria is induced by the individual’s emotional response to traumatic events (accidents) in their past.”B. Most of Freud’s dissociated patients were sexually abused in childhood.C. His descriptions of sexual abuse include: assaults by adults, incest, rape or forced sexual activities, and long term sexually inappropriate relationships between adult and child with genuine feelings of love.D. The memories then are based on fact. They are real things that happen to real people at a real point in time.E. Freud states that the foreign bodies that took possession of the individual were demons. III. C.G. Jung  authenticated the reality of the supernatural. IV. B.F. Skinner A. Objective behaviors allow for dependable accurate interpretation of human behavior (and other species of life as well).B. Behaviorism alone cannot account for all human behaviors but must allow subjective interpretations of individual reality based on genetics and environmental history.C. Spiritual aspects have no real place in psychological evaluation and treatment. V. Norm L. Coad  (1940 –) A. The biblical world view is complete so that it addresses both the behavioral and spiritual aspects of men and women.B. The Bible and the biblical world view is true and reliable.C. By faith the wisdom and knowledge of the therapist can partner with the Lord to do a supernatural healing of Dissociative Identity Disorder.D. By a power encounter through prayer in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, demons may be cast out, and healing of the individual takes place.E. This is usually a process of applying therapies to bring about healing and change, as is true of most abuse and trauma clients. Bibliography 1. J.R. Haule, “Pierre Janet and Dissociation: The First Transference Theory and its Origins In Hypnosis,”  American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis 29  (2) (October 1988), 86-94.2. Ibid., p. 86.3. Ibid., p. 88.4. Ibid.5. Ibid.6. Ibid.7. Ibid.8. Ibid., p. 88, 89.9. Ibid.10. Ibid., p. 90.11. Ibid., p. 91.12. Richard Webster. “Hysteria, Anna O. and the Invention of Psychoanalysis,” http://www.richardwebster.net/freudandcharcot.html.12 . Ibid.14. Ibid.15. Ibid.16. Ibid.17. S. Freud, “The Aetiology of Hysteria,” http://courses.washington.edu/freudlit/Hysteria.Notes.html18 . Ibid.19. M. Bonaparte, A. Freud, and E. Kris,  The Origins of Psychoanalysis. Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts and Notes , 1887-1902, trans. E. Mosbacher and J. Strachey (NY Basic Books, 1954), 187-188.20. Philip Coppens. “The Automatic Writings of Jung,” http://philipcoppens.com/jung.html21 . Ibid.22. Ibid.23. C.G. Jung,  The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious  (U.S.A. Important Books, 2014), 7.24. Ibid., p. 25-33.25. Coppens, op. sit.26. Ibid.27. Ibid.28. Ibid.29. Ibid.30. Ibid.31. Ibid.32. B.F. Skinner,  The Behavior of Organisms, An Experimental Analysis , (Acton, MA: Copley Publishing Group, 1991), 5.33. Ibid., p. 6.34. Ibid., p. 9.35. Ibid.36. Skinner, op. sit. p. 16.37. Ibid., 16.38. Ibid., 17.39. Norman L. Coad,  The Divided Soul , (Burleson, TX. Coadword Books, 2016), 22.40. B.F. Skinner, op. sit. p. 6.41. Ibid., p. 9.42. Ibid., p. 17. __________________ Category:  Norman's Place Tag:  Multiple Personality Disorder  by  Norman L. Coad D.M.

Both God and Satan are working in the individual and the society in which we live. All of us live under the influence of the world, God and Satan. Satan attempts to control us through many means. He would motivate us to dominate, negatively manipulate, be critical, violent and self-centered. At times, he may and does do violence against others. These things are the marks and evidence of Satan as he works through the flesh and our sinful nature. For those who are believers, Christ has raised us upon and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 2:1-10). By His indwelling Spirit, He transforms us all so that we no longer are conformed to the pattern of this world but are transformed and renewed in our minds. We realize that, while we are many and are different in race and destiny, we are one in Christ. Our behavior is to be marked by respect and love for each other (Romans 12:1-21; John 15:9-17). Perhaps the best way to understand this is to see ourselves as a part of the environment in which we live in which we find acceptance and/or rejection. If our individual reference groups enjoy broadband acceptance, prestige, authority, and power, this allows us to experience the necessary access to work, wealth, friendships, recognition, and success. We experience the basic elements to live a full and relatively happy life. If, however, our reference group experiences limited acceptance, opportunities, work, and wealth, we may feel profoundly deprived of the social elements that allow us to feel good about ourselves and deprive us of success. Our evaluation of self and our reference group may be negative. In this context, it is not uncommon to see ourselves as somehow inferior, less than, not as good as others. Often the “negatives” are reinforced in the broader culture by pejorative attitudes, racism, and broadly held caricatures that are accepted as true but are not. When this occurs, no matter how personally intelligent, hard-working, gifted, educated and accomplished one is, it does not change the social equation. The result is that the individual of this group does not achieve the social success and recognition that they deserve. To summarize this, some groups, individuals and values are elevated in the cultural hierarchy in value. Others are devalued. This happens in every society; ours is no exception. Many seek to establish themselves as worthy, valuable, trustworthy people. This is perfectly valid. However, it comes with a price. The cultural access demanded by this force the culture to adapt and change. All cultures and peoples change overtime, so change is valid. The difficulty comes when too much change is demanded too quickly. Resistance develops. Resistance can occur in the individual, small groups, and even in a nation. In a society like ours where the population is a mix of many races, languages, religions, social and personal values, great tolerance to change and acceptance is required for us to function well as a whole. The stress of change never goes away. The U.S.A. has never been easy because of the constant influx of new people and the stress they cause and experience.  Social stress is not only caused by new immigrants. It can also be caused when groups who have been long term residents within our society push to change their status, level of wealth and social influence. This, too, is a normal American trait. Social lift has been constant even through it has been powerfully resisted by some. None of us like to be treated as if we are inferior. Stress also occurs when certain moral values are forced on the greater population. Some of these moral issues are: the new paganism, called the new morality; abortion on demand and Rowe vs. Wade; and now, late-term abortion and infanticide after birth. These and some of the LGBTQ+ issues stress large groups of the U.S.A. population at both the moral and religious practice of many. This has caused a cultural war that has not been resolved. The ongoing confrontations have worn on some on the political left and some on the right. At times, they become violent, uncivil and intolerant of each other as the cultural divide between us grows and intensifies. As a people, some are advocating doing away with the historical values on which this nation was built. As a consequence, the attack on God in society, broad-based acceptance of values based on the Bible, and the denigration of those of us who practice such has been relentless. It has become offensive to many. Being offended is not a helpful response. If certain groups advocate tearing the old down, razing it to the ground, they should have something better to replace it with. Otherwise, the demolition will leave us as a people in a quandary, not knowing how to proceed. The vacuum caused may lead to anarchy. I am not impressed with what is being offered to replace what we already have. America was the recipient of many good things and some not so good. We grew out of the tenants of the Reformation and British Common Law. We inherited slavery from the British who founded Jamestown as a slave colony. We were also the dumping ground for many violent and varied social misfits that Great Britain did not want to deal with. We, also, received the religious stigma put on the Jews by the Western church. No one in America has experienced legal and social inferiority longer and more profoundly than the Afro-American. Even the Supreme Court designated them as inferior with little or no social rights by the Dred Scott Case decision. James A. Michener, in his book  TEXAS , described the inferior status of certain groups succinctly. I paraphrase: All people should be free and have the right to fight for it. All except Negroes, Mexicans, and Indians. This was reinforced economically on all these, and many were killed. For the Negroes, lynching was a common practice well into the Thirties. The right to vote was denied the Blacks until President Johnson put it into law and enforced it nationally. Legally, then, they could not be denied their right to vote. Many immigrants were psychologically designated “the stranger”. The stranger is dishonest, immoral, fearful, and cannot be trusted. The Irish, Arabs/Muslims, Germans, Hispanics, Afro-Americans, to name a few, were all designated “the stranger” at some time in our history. This all sounds like sociology; and, to a degree, it is. How is this spiritual? Simply stated, the way we treated each other in the past and the way we treat others now has often been contrary to the teachings of the Bible. The Bible teaches that we are all created in the image of God. God created us all (Genesis1:27). Through Yeshua Messiah, Jesus the Christ, God in Christ redeemed us all by His shed blood, His death, burial and resurrection from the dead. He died for all of us, all human beings. We are all saved in the same way. The Word states that we are saved by Jesus by grace through faith. The Apostle Paul writes: You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ then you are all Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to Christ (Galatians 3:26-29). To deny that we all came from the same mother and father, Adam and Eve, is to deny the clear teaching of God’s Word. To deny that all the believers are saved into the family of the redeemed is to deny the power and authority of God to make us one in Him. That would be disobedience and rebellion against God’s will, work and word. Disobedience and rebellion against God and His word is sin. That is being like Satan. He is a liar and murderer from the beginning. He would and has perpetrated his lies and murders on all who refuse to be submissive to God’s will and word. Category:  Norman's Place Tag:  and virtues by  Norman Coad

This is a presentation of supplementary material that goes along with   The Divided Soul . This material will be supplementary, not identical. It is meant to complement the book and to give greater insight into things in more detail that are in the book, but not highly developed. Defense Mechanisms Defense mechanisms are the abilities that God has given to us to help us survive trauma (which we all have). No one in this world gets through life without trauma. Proverbs says that man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. There are some psychological principles we need to know that will be helpful: Motivated Behaviors First of all, there is no such thing as “random behavior” in psychology. Everything is motivated. There is a reason why these things happen. You may not be consciously aware of it, but somewhere inside of you, there is a reason for what you do. These motivations are based on real things that have happened to you at a real point in time; they are not imagined; they are real events that have occurred. Generational Issues From a biblical point of view there is another aspect we need to add that goes beyond the psychological understanding. It is the viewpoint that there are also generational sins and generational blessings. These are the things that have gone on before we were born. Generational blessings are virtues and abilities of character where people have stood up and done the right thing at the right time and in the right manner and the blessings of that come forward to us. Curses, on the other hand, to use a biblical term, are the things that have occurred by those in our biological line (which are our ancestors) in which they sinned and did not repent. They are ongoing, unresolved issues in the spirit realm which come forward to each of us in our family lines. No family line is perfect. We each have issues that are generational and we have to deal with them, to not ignore, or be ignorant of them. When we recognize and work with the negative consequences, we are able to shut the curses down, to change and become more functional. The curses are basically from unconfessed sin that has not been put under the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and that is still active in its pain, wounding and dysfunction. Two Defense Mechanisms At this time, we know of only two defense mechanisms. These defense mechanisms are God-given. We get what we get. One is called blocking;  the other is dissociation. The whole idea is that God has given us innate, inherited abilities to survive the traumas of life that we have to deal with. They are both very good; one is not bad and the other good, but they are each distinctly different from the other with each having different capabilities and strengths. Blocking The blocking mechanism functions to protect us and distance us from trauma. The personality is divided into two parts without actually dividing but is relegated into two designated functions. They are the conscious part, and below that, the sub-conscious. The conscious part deals with those things about which we are aware. These things are actually going on in our lives, and they require that we make some adaptation of thought, emotion or behavior. The issues of the conscious are limited to those that help us function . In order to do that we have to stay on task and focus. The conscious part of us deals with function and focus only. Unfortunately, that only includes about 5% of our motivations. That means that about 95% of the time we don’t know why we do what we do. There is a reason for this. The issue that provokes most motivation is traumatic and undermines us. In order to better function and survive, the trauma is blocked from our conscious mind and is distanced from our everyday life. The subconscious deals with ninety-five percent of the reasons we do things. This is about surviving trauma, all types of trauma: verbal abuse, emotional abuse, physical, psychological, sexual, ritual, perfectionistic, abandonment and any other type of trauma. Survival demands that we distance ourselves from trauma in order to function. Since trauma interferes with function and focus, the conscious decides, we are not going to deal with it!  And so, the trauma event, the memory of it, is put into the subconscious. In the subconscious we have the memory bank. Each memory has a trigger attached to it so that it can be brought up at any point in time as needed. The memory bank is our personal history that includes everything that has ever happened to us from the point of conception up to this very moment. Good memories (non-traumatic memories, benign memories) go in to the memory bank without much trouble at all. They are what some would call “warm fuzzies.” They are the things we enjoy thinking about. They are a comfort to us. Traumatic Memories The dictionary defines trauma as a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress or physical injury. Trauma memories are to the memory bank what computer viruses are to computers. They don’t fit into the memory bank very well, but they still have triggers. They use up a tremendous amount of psychological and emotional energy that wear the subconscious out. The subconscious tries then to defend itself. It tries to get the workload lightened so that it is not utterly fatigued and psychologically burned out. A Pushing Match The subconscious and the conscious get into a pushing match. The trauma memory is repressed into the subconscious. The conscious refuses to deal with the trauma and the subconscious is stuck with it. The more traumatic the memory, the more difficult it is to retrieve and process. Emotional Messages The subconscious doesn’t just give up but tries to get help. It starts by sending messages. It sends emotional messages of anger, anxiety, depression, powerlessness, hopelessness, etc. They have only one meaning, “Help!” Behavioral Messages If nothing is done, then the messages get stronger so that (added to the emotional messages) the subconscious sends out behavioral messages. These would be things such as: road rage, fighting, drinking, drugging, acting out in promiscuous sexual behavior, and the like. Again, it is only a call for help. Only now, you have not just one message coming forth from the subconscious, but two at the same time; there are emotional messages (and the things they produce) and there are behavioral messages. Physical Messages Long after the trauma was first repressed into the subconscious, physical help!  messages begin appearing. These are emphatic. These help messages take the form of illnesses, allergies and physical dysfunctions. They become increasingly acute and can be life threatening. These are psychosomatic illnesses. Psychosomatic illnesses, while acting on the physical body, are not physically based but are psychologically based. They arise out of the unresolved trauma out of the past that has not been tended to. The more religious of us call these problems of the spirit, soul and body. In physiology these are called illnesses arising out of the mind/body connection. These psychosomatic illnesses are very common. Some say that 85–90% of all doctor visits are psychosomatic in nature. To treat these so that the person can function relatively normally the doctor practices medical management. They treat the symptoms but do not address the root cause. The root causes are traumas and that is the job for psychotherapists. Dissociation Dissociation has been grouped and treated under several headings: Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder), Depersonalization Disorder, Dissociative Amnesia, Dissociative Fugue and Acute Stress Disorder. Itshould be noted that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Somatization Disorder share dissociative symptoms.[1] The critical distinction to be noted in the above is that dissociation involves distancing oneself from the trauma with barriers of amnesia. Between these barriers are groups of personalities that exist and function. There are bodiless beings who use the trauma to demonize the split off consciousness. Spirit, Soul and Body The biblical description of human personality is that it is made up of spirit, soul and body (I Thessalonians 5:23). The soul is often used to mean mind, emotion and will. All but the body can be split. This creates confusion because the visible body is the same. However, the alters which take executive control of the physical body often change. The spirit of a person relates to God. God is spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). The soul is here used to indicate human traits and abilities of mind, emotion and will. The mind is the thinking, evaluating, categorizing, organizing and planning part of our personality. The emotions are the passions, attractions and expressions that draw us to, or move us away from, certain people, things or situations. They help us bond and relate to ourselves and others. The will is the decision-making part of our life whereby we give direction, purpose and stability to our lives. This is where we make choices, move in a certain direction, and stay on task to see issues through to completion. In order to hide this from our conscious mind, the dissociation serves to split our consciousness and hide the traumatic part. There are also demons and spirits of the dead working there. These defense mechanisms are protective. The difference between blocking and dissociation is that blocking does not split the consciousness and dissociation is profound splitting of the personality. Trauma Activation Dissociation is trauma activated. Trauma triggers these defense mechanisms. These individuals do not have to be taught because this ability is theirs from birth. Blocking represses the trauma into the subconscious with no splitting of the consciousness. Dissociation splits a part of the spirit, mind, emotions and will from the consciousness, assigning the trauma memory to the split off part and there hides it. The hiding place within us is that vast inner space that is as big in minutia as the rest of the universe is in gargantua. The trauma memory is no longer resident in the conscious awareness. The amnesia is a hundred percent and serves as a barrier between our conscious functioning and the group of personalities hidden there. Many Barriers of Amnesia It is my experience that there are usually many barriers of amnesia. It appears that the alters are also imprisoned under the amnesia barriers. The multiple personalities are so thoroughly confined that the types of restraining areas are many and varied, prisons within prisons, encapsulations of various sorts, cubicles with four sides, a roof and floor with no way out, etc. Triggered Memories The personality’s memories can be triggered out by hypnotherapy, or anything that can activate the trauma response in the alter. The triggering releases the personalities to act out in pre-programmed responses. All the alters are pre-programmed to do as they were conditioned. This programming is done by demons, spirits of the dead and workers of iniquity.[3] The mode of programming appears to be a misapplication of behavioral modification techniques. The bodiless beings’ purpose is to carry out Satan’s plans through the alters. They do this by afflicting the alters with lies, pain, deprivations of food, water, sleep, etc. They terrorize and torture and wound their personalities into submission until they are robotically obedient to the evil ones’ demands. Their survival principle is, “better you have the pain than me.” They exist at the survival level in anger, fear and helplessness. They do whatever the evil ones demand. The sum of all this is evil, wickedness, corruption and violence. They can be so desensitized to evil that they can do any wickedness without a twinge of remorse, often with a blank stare, expression devoid of emotion, with no feeling or mood of normal human response. In this state they are almost completely dehumanized. This of course does not happen easily, but over time, with great deception and profound programming. Perversion What God created in us as a help to survive trauma is perverted into an evil thing. Each alter is split off for a specific purpose, some are playful and fun, or practical, carrying out some useful occupation necessary in life. Many are sexual, programmed to carry out a vast array of corruption. Some are good and useful; others are evil and sinful. The result is a human being with many dysfunctions, rages and moral failures. The increasing trauma of this eventually undermines the physical and psychological health of the individual. These alters, if never discovered and healed, remain isolated and alone in their traumatized state. Switching Executive Control Switching occurs all the time in the dissociated person. Switching occurs when one alter who has executive control of the body goes “down” or relinquishes control of the personality, and another alter takes executive control of the person’s thoughts, attitudes and behaviors, or is “up.” Only the alter that is “up” has memory of what is taking place. The alters that are down do not have memories of what is going on. This results in gaps, or blanks, in the memory. The switching of personalities may be subtleor dramatic. Most are subtle in order as to not reveal the change in the alters as they come up or go down. Two Factors There are two factors that must be present in order for a person to dissociate. He (or she) must have the hereditary ability to dissociate, and he, or she, must be traumatized. The trauma may be intentional or accidental. Either way, the result is splitting of the consciousness. Most of the trauma arises out of abuse and family of origin issues. There seems to be more abuse of women than men. The ratio is about three to one. Because of the prevalence of abuse of women there are more dissociated women than men. Any kind of physical trauma may cause a person to dissociate, i.e., head trauma, auto accidents, etc. The most common dissociating trauma is being put in fearful circumstances where one experiences powerlessness and hopelessness. All forms of abuse may cause dissociation: verbal, physical, sexual, emotional or ritual. The family of origin abuses include perfectionism, negativity, abandonment, rejection, emotional deprivation, to name a few. Diagnosis Diagnosis is a two-step procedure. A provisionary diagnosis is made based on the information given to the counselor and the symptoms of the client. These are behavioral, psychological, social and vocational dysfunctions of the client. It is not uncommon that there are also multiple physical ailments and several dysfunctions of the auto immune system and psychosomatic illnesses. The actual working diagnosis is revealed in the self-report of the inner workings of the individual. At this time the most effective diagnosis and treatment is based on the world view of the Bible. This is supernatural and is thoroughly explained in my book The Divided Soul .   The diagnosis is complete when the client and the therapist determine that there is more than one personality functioning in the individual. Debilitation Ongoing splitting of the personality debilitates the individual. Each splitting diminishes the core personality. The split off alter is hidden with the trauma memory. Any part of human personality may be split off. This means that the whole of the human spirit, mind, emotions and will are diminished over time to the point ofdysfunction. As difficult as the process of counseling is, it is better than denying the dissociation that is occurring and not shutting it down and reversing the process. It is reversible. Astro-projection When the personalities are formed through splitting of the conscious, they are able to function independently of the dissociated person’s conscious awareness. Not only that, they can operate outside and independent of the body. Each alter is formed for a specific purpose. They are programmed to carry out their assigned tasks. These tasks may be assigned by the demons to occur any place in the universe. The alter is able to complete the assignment through astro-projection. astro-projection  (or astral travel) is an interpretation of an out of body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of an “astral body” separate from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it.[4] The biblical references to astral projection include: Phillip’s encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:26-40) and Paul’s vision (II Corinthians 12:1-6). This denotes a certain lack of control in the dissociated person. The amnesia, the multiple personalities, the evil spirit beings coercing the alters, are all part of the person with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). As hard as it is to believe, this is the inner reality of the person who dissociates. It is not insanity, but a defense mechanism to help the person survive severe trauma. Indicators of Dissociation Dissociation has various characteristics. Some of these are within the following list of questions to ask yourself. These questions are indicators only. They do not constitute a diagnosis. They are here included for identifying whether one has the innate ability to dissociate: 1. Does your handwriting change over time? 2. Do people accuse you of having said something that you have no recollection of saying? 3. Have you been accused of being a liar? 4. Do you get lost easily, even in familiar areas? 5. Do you experience marked changes in emotion, attitude and personal taste,sometimes in rapid succession? 6. Have you experienced abandonment or rejection that profoundly affected you? 7. Were you raised in, or have you participated in alcoholic or drug-addicted environments? 8. Have you been sexually abused? 9. Do you have difficulty putting things in your mouth—i.e., a toothbrush? 10. Do you sometimes rage at things that surprise you? 11. Do you have difficulty staying organized and following through on tasks? 12. Do you experience anger or fear if your spouse is sexual with you? 13. Do you have traumatic dreams or flashbacks? 14. Do you have difficulty setting and maintaining boundaries? 15. Do you often end up in abusive relationships? 16. Were you sexually active before marriage but reject sex from your spouse after marriage? 17. Do you sometimes feel like a little person in a big body? 18. When talking to certain individuals, do you feel yourself getting smaller inside? 19. Was either parent dominating, perfectionist, negative? 20. When confronted with many choices, do you have difficulty making a decision or choosing one option? 21. Do you have multiple thoughts going through your mind in rapid succession? 22. Do you hear voices inside your mind or head? 23. Do you suffer from endometriosis or pain in intercourse? 24. Are you more aware of evil supernatural activities than others? 25. Do you cringe when handling raw meat or packages of wet garbage? 26. Do you forget things often? 27. Have you had multiple sex partners and multiple marriages? 28. Do you suffer from several medical/physical problems? 29. Have medical doctors given you several diagnoses? 30. Do you have several physical problems? 31. Do you feel that men or women are a threat to you? 32. Do you engage regularly in bashing the opposite sex? 33. Do you have difficulty keeping jobs? 34. Are you attracted to evil at times and at other times not? 35. Do you know who you are? 36. Do you feel you are a bundle of contradictions? 37. Do you find bruises on your body that you cannot explain? 38. Do you wake up fatigued after several hours of sleep? 39. Are your dreams frightening, dark or evil? 40. Do you wake up regularly between midnight and four o’clock? 41. Are you greatly attached to animals? Do you have many of them? 42. Is your living space dirty or disordered?43. Are the dishes and laundry never done? 44. Do you have difficulty maintaining healthy relationships? 45. Do you frequently rage? 46. Do you find fault with others? 47. Are you negative? 48. Are you critical of spouse and/or children? 49. Are you a compulsive hand washer? 50. Are you a perfectionist? 51. Can no one please you (specially your children and your spouse)? 52. Do family get togethers, holidays and the like, trigger negative emotions and behaviors? 53. Is there a family history of occult, traditional religion, free masons, etc.? 54. Have you had multiple marriages? 55. Do you allow yourself to be used and abused? 56. Are your relationships win/lose, dominant/submissive, painful emotionally or physically? 57. Is your health deteriorating? 58. Is your autoimmune system compromised or weak? 59. Do certain touches, smells, seasons or situations more often than not trigger negative compulsive responses? 60. Are you isolated? 61. Do you feel you are damaged, used, of little value? 62. Do you feel unloved and unlovable? 63. Do you hit yourself? 64. Do you cut yourself? 65. Do you overeat and then purge? 66. Do you go from bulimia to anorexia? 67. Are you always alert, waiting for something to happen? 68. Do you love yourself? 69. Are your needs and wants always less important than those of others? 70. Are you an adult child of an alcoholic? 71. Do you feel ashamed? 72. Do you lack structure in your life? 73. Do you feel empty? 74. Is God loving and kind and good? 75. Is God mean? Does He condemn you? 76. Does anyone care about you? 77. Does sex equal love? 78. Do you rage compulsively? 79. Are you abusive to others? 80. Do you like being cruel to animals or those weaker than you?81. Does it bother you when members of the opposite sex touch you or get too close to you? 82. Are some of your behavior’s irrational and destructive? 83. Do you feel that things will never be right or good with you? 84. Are there large gaps in your childhood memories? 85. When talking to siblings, does it seem you must have been raised in a different family? 86. Do you feel numb at the emotional level? 87. Do these questions make you nervous? 88. Do you feel afraid at full moons? 89. Do you feel that you can never measure up? 90. Will you ever be good enough? 91. Do you spend a lot of time in bed, not doing anything? 92. Is it difficult for you to keep a job? 93. Are you afraid you might hurt your children? 94. Are your emotions shut down? 95. Do you put yourself in danger, going to places where you might be, or are, abused sexually? 96. Do you prostitute? 97. Do you reject or avoid having sex with your spouse? 98. Have you ever felt loved? 99. Is your life performance based on doing things so that you will be affirmed by others? 100. Do you feel that no one could ever love you? __________________ Notes 1. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision  Washington DC. The American Psychological Association, 2000. p. 519. 2. N.L. Coad The Divided Soul   Coadword Books, Burleson, TX 2016. p. 39. 3. Ibid Coad p. 7-8. 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral  projection . Category: Norman's Place Tag: Multiple Personality Disorder